sheel
Manx
Etymology 1
From Old Irish síl (“seed”).
Noun
sheel m (genitive singular sheel, plural sheelyn)
- (botany) seed, pip, oats
- (cytology) sperm, spunk
- issue, offspring, lineage
Derived terms
- sheelag (“seedling”)
Verb
sheel (verbal noun sheeley, past participle sheelit)
- drip, trickle, dribble, seep, ooze, flow, run, gravitate
- percolate, leach, distil, extract, refine, instill, strain (off), filter, clear (of liquid), clarify (honey), drain
- (medicine) discharge, weep (of sore)
- draw (off)
- soil (as milk)
- gutter (of candle)
Derived terms
Derived terms
- aaheel (“redistill”)
- neuheelaght (“cloudiness (of liquid)”)
- neuheelys (“cloud (in liquid)”)
- yn-heel (“to infiltrate”)
Mutation
| Manx mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| sheel | heel after "yn", çheel | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||